overhasty

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adjective done with very great haste and without due deliberation; - Shakespeare; - Arthur Geddes

From over- + hasty.

He was secretly accused of highway robbery in South America, cheating at cards in the gambling houses of San Francisco, and the overhasty use of firearms toward persons who had never offended him. — Twenty-Five Ghost Stories, Unknown
He never wearies or flags in his protest against those that were at that time called the “Progressists,” that is to say (I borrow this definition from Strakhov), “the generation of politicians which expected the advancement of Russian civilization to proceed not from an organic development of the national character, but from an overhasty assimilation of Western teachings.” “The Frenchman is first and foremost a Frenchman, and an Englishman, an Englishman, and their highest aim is to remain true to themselves. — Dostoevsky, André Gide

hasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous

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